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Worker Protective Labor Laws in Hawaiʻi, Part 1: Safety & Health and Workers' Compensation
Get PDFThis text is an archival document of interpreted Health & Safety Laws originally published on the old CLEAR website. OSHA & Hawai‘i Occupational Safety and Health Law, Substance Abuse Testing, Hawai‘i’s Workers’ Compensation Act, Federal Employees Compensation Act (FECA), and Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act are covered. These legal interpretations and links have not be updated so it is the responsibility of the researcher to fact check
Makahaiwaʻa - UH West Oʻahu's Weekly Newsletter - Week of August 07, 2023
No full textA Communications Department newsletter from University of Hawai'i - West O'ahu published on Monday, August 07, 2023, to the faculty and staff listserv.A web preservation file has been captured for this newsletter in addition to the PDF. Contact the UHWO Library for access
SEA TO DIGITAL REALITY: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF UNDERWATER STRUCTURE FROM MOTION PHOTOGRAMMETRY PLATFORMS AND THEIR INTEGRATION INTO AN IMMERSIVE AUGMENTED REALITY APPLICATION
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Makahaiwaʻa - UH West Oʻahu's Weekly Newsletter - Week of July 17, 2023
No full textA Communications Department newsletter from University of Hawai'i - West O'ahu published on Monday, July 17, 2023, to the faculty and staff listserv.A web preservation file has been captured for this newsletter in addition to the PDF. Contact the UHWO Library for access
Blood Pressure Management with the use of Technology in Rural Hawaii
Get PDFThe health care delivery system has evolved over centuries with the use of technology to manage care for those who live in rural communities. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic a public health emergency (PHE) has extended insurance policies so telehealth services (THS) could become available for primary care clinics. Although it became the new norm, and despite the benefits of THS, health care centers will continue to face challenges as new policies are in effect which may limit the delivery of health care options for primary care providers. Without innovative solutions to utilize technology as a part of primary care services, patient care will continue to be inadequate making it less cost-effective. One major challenge that providers will continue to encounter is the health literacy issues related to chronic disease management (CDM). One of the major risk factors for life threatening events is hypertension (HTN). Otherwise known as high blood pressure (HBP). The purpose of this project is to develop and deliver an interventional educational program (IEP) with the use of zoom and PowerPoint applications that focus on managing HBP among adults who reside within a rural community where access to primary care is limited. The chronic care model (CCM) and logic model (LM) was used as a guide to develop and design a project plan to implement the IEP in effort to increase health literacy core measures of one’s knowledge and confidence levels. Pre- and post- Hypertension Evaluation Lifestyle Management (HELM) scores and Blood Pressure Management Self Efficacy scale (BPMSES) scores were compared. The results indicated an increase in knowledge and confidence levels in
all areas of managing HBP through lifestyle and treatment goals, the use of an automatic blood pressure monitor (ABPM), recognizing the 5 levels of BP numbers, and partnering with providers to manage HBP
Confucianism and the Lives of Women
No full textThis is a chapter that has been published by Oxford University Press in The Oxford Handbook of Confucianism edited by Jennifer Oldstone-Moore in 2023.The chapter is currently under a 24-month embargo, starting on January 26, 2023, and ending on January 26, 2025.The connections between Confucianism and the lives of women have been a subject of interest since the turn of the 19th century, taken up, first, by missionaries and travelers as part of their anthropological observations of the “natives”; then by the Reform Movement and the May Fourth Movement, culminating in the Cultural Revolution as part of the nationalistic discourse; and lastly by the contemporary feminists as part of their “outreach” effort to form a global sisterhood. In all these three approaches, Confucianism is portrayed as a negative force in the lives of women. Up to the mid-1990s, the notion of universal victimhood of women overshadowed the notion of female agency in Chinese gender studies. Now with the rise of the field of comparative feminist philosophy exploring positive feminist space within Confucianism, the theoretical construction of Confucian feminism emerges as the latest attempt to reconceptualize the complex connections between Confucianism and the lives of women
Standardizing Medical Clearance of Behavioral Health Patients: Implementation and Evaluation of Adapted SSVMS SMART Form at a Rural Community Hospital Emergency Department
Get PDFThe number of inpatient psychiatric beds has decreased by over 500,000 beds since the 1950s. This has led to many patients seeking mental health care through emergency departments (ED) and a high percentage of ED hours are utilized by patients experiencing mental and/or behavioral crises, in turn leading to overcrowded EDs across the country. The Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Society (SSVMS) implemented the SMART Form in 2015 to standardize and assist ED providers with the process of ‘medical clearance’ of mental/behavioral health patients. SSVMS SMART Form use led to a 14.9% decrease in ED length of stay (LOS). In the current study, the SMART Form was adapted for use in a rural hospital to evaluate effects on ED LOS, number of blood draws, and number of ancillary tests ordered. Other metrics evaluated were the utilization rate of the SMART Form and staff satisfaction. During the one-month implementation period, it was found that the adapted SMART Form was not utilized, yet staff satisfaction with measures regarding ED workflow, communication between the ED and BHU, and the ED LOS of patients admitted to the BHU shifted from a dissatisfied position to a neutral position. Future steps to continue to improve staff satisfaction measures would be to require that the adapted SMART Form be completed prior to ordering psychiatric consults, evaluating if the SMART Form reduces length of time for patients with a mental and/or behavioral chief complaint to be evaluated by psychiatry, and continuing to assess how increased hospital census affects both departments to develop creative solutions to address increased LOS
Worker Protective Labor Laws in Hawaiʻi, Part 3: Family and Medical Leave Act & Wage and Hour Laws
No full textThis text is an archival document of interpreted Wage & Hour Laws originally published on the old CLEAR website. Hawai‘i's Family Leave Act, Family and Medical Leave Act, The Fair Labor Standards Act, Minimum Wage Laws, The Hawai‘i Wage and Hour Law, Hawai‘i Payment of Wages Law, Hawai‘i Garnishment of Wages Law, Hawai‘i Child Labor Law, Hawai‘i Time Off for Voting Law, and Employment Rights after Military Leave are covered. These legal interpretations and links have not be updated so it is the responsibility of the researcher to fact check
